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Netflix has greenlighted The Upshaws, a multi-camera family comedy series starring and executive produced by actor-comedians Wanda Sykes (Wanda Sykes: Not Normal) and Mike Epps(Dolemite Is My Name, Only One Mike). Sykes also will co-showrun with Regina Hicks (The L Word, Generations Q, Central Park, Insecure).
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EXCLUSIVE: Baby Powder is making a return. Mike Epps will reprise his role from the original stoner classic in MTV’s movie sequel How High 2. The network also set a premiere date of Saturday, April 20 and released a first-look at the show open above.
Epps will provide continuity for fans of the 2001 pop-culture…

EXCLUSIVE: Mike Epps has been added to the cast of Amazon Studios’Troupe Zero, joining Viola Davis, Allison Janney, Jim Gaffigan and Mckenna Grace. Bert & Bertie are directing the film from a script by Beasts of the Southern Wild scribe Lucy Alibar.
Epps will play Dwayne Boudraux in the film, which is begin produced…

EXCLUSIVE: Machete star Danny Trejo and rapper Rick Ross have signed on to join the comedy film The House Next Door, the sequel to Meet The Blacks, which has Mike Epps reprising his starring role as well as Deon Taylor returning to direct. Katt Williams (Friday After Next) also stars in the pic along with returnees…

Fox is rounding out casting for Season 2 of its hit music drama Star, with Evan Ross joining in a key recurring role.
Co-created by Lee Daniels and Tom Donaghy, Star follows three talented singers – running from their pasts, desperate for a new start and with ambitions of stardom – as they navigate the cutthroat music…

EXCLUSIVE: Mike Epps is joining Bruce Willis in Eli Roth's remake of Death Wishfor MGM/Paramount. Epps will play Dr. Chris Salgado, a playboy doctor and close friend of Willis’ character Paul Kersey. Kersey’s life has been destroyed by a violent crime against his wife and daughter. Frustrated that the bad guys for…

Paula Patton and actor-comedian Mike Epps have inked with Primary Wave Entertainment, the company formed from the amalgam of Evolution Entertainment Partners, Intellectual Artists Group and Primary Wave Music.
Patton most recently appeared in Universal’s Warcraft and Adam Sandler’s Netflix comedy The Do-Over. Credits…

In the fall of 1990, CBS was about to debut a TV adaptation of John Hughes’ Uncle Buck, and TV critics at TCA had their knickers in a knot because the pilot featured a 6-year-old girl bellowing “You suck!” and using the word “ovulating.”
That was then. In 2016, ABC is about to debut its take on the old John Candy…

EXCLUSIVE:Freestyle Releasing has acquired horror-comedy Meet The Blacks starring Mike Epps and set an April 29 theatrical release. Deon Taylor wrote, directed and produced the pic, which spoofs the 2013 Ethan Hawke-Lena Headey hit The Purge. Roxanne Avent and Shannon McIntosh also produced Meet The Blacks…

At some point after Nevermind became a hit, the members of Nirvana said that they knew they’d made it after Weird Al recorded a parody of one of their songs. Congratulations, softcore porn: Your moment has arrived. This is the trailer for Fifty Shades of Black, a parody (obviously) of Fifty Shades of Grey starring Marl…

EXCLUSIVE: The Weinstein Company is ready to greenlight its Richard Pryor biopic, and my, have Harvey Weinstein and Lee Daniels put together a terrific cast. The new additions: Oprah Winfrey will play Pryor’s grandmother, who ran a brothel and raised the iconic comic there; Eddie Murphy will play Pryor’s father, Leroy…